Vidrado
Blur the distractions, keep what matters clear
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Details
- External ID
- 1271702
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Vidrado
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3237349734414314
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Open Source, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Oct. 9, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 9, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Vidrado is a native macOS menu bar app that blurs and dims background windows while keeping your active window clear. Per-app rules, adjustable intensity, and a global shortcut. Free and open source, no account, no tracking, 100% on-device.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macOS desktop and window utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- background blur tool for video recordings
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Vidrado is a lightweight macOS menu bar utility built in Swift that tracks active window events via standard Accessibility/CoreGraphics APIs and draws blur overlays.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 204 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #119 of 205 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.
- Vireo - Simple Markdown Editor for MacOS · ph · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- LidAwake · github · 2026-10-03 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Mac Duo · ph · 2026-09-15 · 98 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- BlurShield · ph · 2026-09-16 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- FluidFold · github · 2026-09-10 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- BendMac · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- MacDuo · github · 2026-09-12 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- openbendy · github · 2026-09-10 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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